Emanuel’s Budget Advances; Aldermen Seek Tobacco Tax Expansion

CHICAGO (CBS) — The City Council — as a formality — moved Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s $6 billion budget another step closer to its expected passage Wednesday.

The final vote comes in one week, on Nov. 16.

But WBBM Newsradio Political Editor Craig Dellimore reports some aldermen are still hoping to make changes. Specifically, some aldermen proposed an expansion of the city’s tobacco tax to include chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco and other such products, rather than just rolled cigarettes.